Legenda dan Dongeng Bahasa Indonesia Beserta Generic Structure

The Story of Toba Lake

Once upon a time, there was a man who was living in north Sumatra. He lived in a simple hut in a farming field. The did some gardening and fishing for his daily life.

One day, while the man was do fishing, he caught a big golden fish in his trap. It was the biggest catch which he ever had in his life. Surprisingly, this fish turned into a beautiful princess. He felt in love with her and proposed her to be his wife. She said; “Yes, but you have to promise not to tell anyone about the secret that I was once a fish, otherwise there will be a huge disaster”. The man made the deal and they got married, lived happily and had a daughter.

Few years later, this daughter would help bringing lunch to her father out in the fields. One day, his daughter was so hungry and she ate his father’s lunch. Unfortunately, he found out and got furious, and shouted; “You damned daughter of a fish”. The daughter ran home and asked her mother. The mother started crying, felt sad that her husband had broke his promise.
Then she told her daughter to run up the hills because a huge disaster was about to come. When her daughter left, she prayed. Soon there was a big earthquake followed by non-stop pouring rain. The whole area got flooded and became Toba Lake. She turned into a fish again and the man became the island of Samosir.
Note on Generic Structure of the Legend of  Toba Lake
Although narrative texts are written in several kinds such as legend, myth, folk tail, love story and other stories, basically they have the same thing in common. That is about how the different forms of narrative are arranged into the whole of story.
They way the writer or story-teller arranged his paragraphs into interesting and meaningful story is what we call generic structure. So this elements are very important which determine whether it is a narrative or not. Just to make it clear, let’s see the generic structure of the above story in the legend of Toba Lake.

Generic Structure	Contents
Orientation	What we call “orientation” is actually an introduction of the story. It inform the readers who when and where inside the story. It tells readers the specific participants in the specific place and time. In the legend of Toba lake, the first paragraph is clearly seen as an orientation. It introduces the participants involved in the story. In short, they are a man with his wife (formerly a fish), and his daughter. They live in North Sumatra once time.
Complication	Complication has the greatest ruler in relation of learning English text types since it the only one which can differ narrative from other types. Complication can be build based on three kinds of conflict. They are natural or physical conflict, social conflict, and inner or psychological conflict. A text of narrative can be organized through this one or more kinds of conflict. Without the existence of those conflicts, the text is NOT a narrative any more. The complication in the legend of Toba Lake is seen when the man failed to keep his promise to his wife which he would NEVER AND NEVER talk to any body that she (his wife) had been a fish. Due to his failure of keeping the promise, the complication rises into the climax. His wife is very angry to him
Resolution	As many traditional stories, every crisis should find its way to go down. The turning points will lead into the solution, and that is what we call “resolution”. Remember that a resolution can be a happy ending or the sad one. In this way, the legend of Toba Lake ends his story plot with the sad ending. The participants, the man with his wife and his daughter broke his very happy family into pieces of object. The wife turned into his original life, fish. The worst thing happened to the man, he became a small island. Poor them but happy for the people behind them.

Princes Merida dalam bahasa Inggris

King Fergus and Queen Elinor ruled the kingdom of DunBroch in Scotland. They had three sons and one daughter, the beautiful Princess Merida. All four children were mischievous!
Queen Elinor tried to teach Merida how to behave like a perfect princess. But Merida liked to slip away from the palace to practice with her bow and arrow. She was a skilled archer.
One night, the queen announced that three clans were coming to visit. Each would present a suitor to compete for Merida’s hand in marriage. Merida was horrified. “I won’t go through with it!” she shouted. To Merida’s dismay, the suitors arrived as planned. Merida sat waiting on her throne for the archery contest to begin. She knew she could handle a bow and arrow far better than the suitors could!
Once the suitors had taken their shots, Merida marched onto the field. The queen yelled for her to stop, but Merida didn’t listen. She fired her arrows and hit each target dead center. She had won! Now she wouldn’t have to marry anyone!

Generic Structure Contoh Narrative Text Princess Merida

Untuk lebih meyakinkan cerita Putri Merida diatas sebagai contoh narrative tex, kita perlu menganalisa generic structurenya
Orientation: Pengenalan tokoh cerita dan informasi waktu atau tempat disebutkan dalam paragraf pertama

King Fergus and Queen Elinor ruled the kingdom of DunBroch in Scotland. They had three sons and one daughter, the beautiful Princess Merida. All four children were mischievous!

Complication 1: Dalam teks narrative, conflict bisa lebih dari 1 yang. Pertentangan pertama disebutkan pada paragraf kedua dimana sanga ratu menginginkan Putri Merida bertingakah laku yang semestinya sebagai seorang putri, tapi nyatanya tidak.

Queen Elinor tried to teach Merida how to behave like a perfect princess. But Merida liked to slip away from the palace to practice with her bow and arrow.

Complicaton 2: Paragraf ketiga menyatakan conflict yang sebenarnya dimana dia tidak setuju dengan acara sayembara memanah tersebut.

Merida was horrified. “I won’t go through with it!” she shouted. To Merida’s dismay, the suitors arrived as planned.

Resolution: Pemecahan permasalahan dimana Putri Merida mampu mengatasi masalahnya dengan sukses.

She fired her arrows and hit each target dead center. She had won! Now she wouldn’t have to marry anyone